Crafts: Sketchbook
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How To Draw Koi Fish As A Simple Sketchbook Exercise
Every artist or crafter has likely experienced the situation where in something done with ease and relatively quickly somehow ends up being nicer than things that you labored over for hours! Such is the case with these koi fish, and so I present to you, how to draw koi fish as a simple sketchbook exercise,…
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How To Draw Colorful Poppy Field Sketches In Your Art Journal
After two years packed with creativity that included everything except my beloved art and sketchbook practice, I said “enough is enough” and now instead of making cross stitch art (a bit obsessively, but it was great), it is back to the paint and sketching supplies! I dipped my toes back into the sketchbook last week…
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How To Sketch Watercolor Clouds With Water Soluble Pencils
At long last I forced myself to make art in a sketchbook (I have three unfinished ones……nearly there.) and I’m quite embarrassed to say that after a nice stint and true dedication to art journaling and creating in a sketchbook, I dropped the practice completely for two years, yikes! That is not to say that…
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How To Draw Festive Floral Doodles For Cards And Signs
Years ago I got into floral doodles via some tutorials for bullet journal art and it was so much fun, and a great introduction to the world of journaling and sketchbook practices. Since then I’ve been working on refining my art skills and while doing lots of drawing, not like the floral borders you see…
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DIY Loose-Leaf Watercolor Art Journal With Lettering, For Counting The Omer
I'm sharing this a bit on the late side to actually be inspired this year, that is to use my idea and make a loose-leaf watercolor counting the Omer art journal, but you could certainly make the journal anytime and save it for next year, or use it as a gift or for some other…
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Watercolor Art For Loose-Bound Art Journal Pages
Hello watercolors! It has been quite a while since I've touched any paint, so I decided to wade back in with baby steps by starting with watercolors, (mostly those in a tube) and then using those watercolors to make a new loose leaf art journal which I'll be using to count the Omer, the 49…
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Simple Two-stroke Painted Butterfly Is Perfect Right Now!
After posting about the origami butterflies I've started making for this year's Purim decorations, I realized that indeed, some painted butterflies, maybe with 4 wings this year, must fly into the picture as well, so as my stack of origami butterflies in all sizes is growing, I've pulled this out of the archives to remind…
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DIY Counting The Omer Art Journal
With all the preparations for Passover, it is generally quite difficult to think about counting the Omer art projects ahead of time, but this year I actually succeeded in making a DIY art journal for daily creating according to the Omer, ahead of time! I’ll admit, it was really quite a fluke, and happened 3…
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Simple 2 Stroke Painted Butterfly
I am officially obsessed with these adorable 2 stroke painted butterflies because they are so simple to paint and the results are just so wonderful! And so my friends butterflies and pyramids are going to the the theme of this year's Passover crafts, lets do it! This butterfly technique can be used in so many…
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Counting The Omer Art Journal
I am reposting this from last year, as truly now is a great time to start thinking about a counting the Omer Art Journal! Namely set yourself up ahead of time, so that once Passover is over, you can dive in, make up for the first week (I don't create art during the Passover holiday)…
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Experimenting With Hi-End Water Soluble Wax Pastels
Experimenting with hi-end water soluble wax pastels is so much fun! Looking for a Chanukah gift for an artsy someone? The Caran D’Ache wax pastels might just be a great gift, namely the set of 40 that comes in a gorgeous red tin. Do note however, these are amazing for working in journals and sketchbooks,…
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Sketchbook Drawings From Colored Pencils After The Trip!
While I did take this sketchbook with me my on our recent trip to the USA, I was right in thinking that I would not likely get much sketching or painting done! In fact I ran down to the beach on the last day just to do one quick watercolor so that carrying the sketchbook…